You can get cress seeds in UK and grow your own.
I would ask your Dad to get in supplies or log on to a supermarket site for deliveries.
I think Paul Flinders is right, you will have to self isolate for the full fourteen days, to make sure that you haven’t brought it with you.
You will then have to self isolate for another fourteen days on your return to France.
It looks (at the moment!) like I am ok to travel back on day 6. We will see…
Xx
Fingers crossed for you.
Your fine to travel back inside the 14 days - its very much quasi quarantine at best. There’s lots of you “shouldn’t” rather than you will not - don’t travel on public transport - unless you have to - don’t go shopping - unless you have to… But in terms of the 14 days - its simply “quarantine” for 14 days or for how long you 're in the UK for.
True - but there’s a potential £1000 fine if you get it wrong; you couldn’t get more Kafkaesque if you tried.
Surely ‘self isolating’ means just that, isolating yourself and not being with other people eg your parents?
You would think so but not in UK!
Which is why if that was the case, my trip would be pointless as I am only going there to see them!
Actually it does, I have had a friend who had to have an operation on Friday. She had to ‘self-isolate’ for 14 days before hand so she lived in the guest bedroom, didn’t share the same bathroom as hubby and kids etc. Another friend has been what they call ‘sheilding’ as she is very high risk and she has literally barely left the house since March (she can now walk / ride in open spaces). Weirdly she has been told she can go back to work next week, she is a nurse right in the firery red hotspot in W. Yorks i think that is crazy!
Agree if you want to take it 100% seriously but I should imagine that the vast majority of people, especially those who were caught short by the announcements when they were already on holiday, are just going to have to ‘self-isolate’ as best they can given individual circumstances and situations.
I am thinking for example of families with small children who are going to require food and may not be able to get delivery slots booked in time as they were away when the decision was made. And if you have a wailing toddler and are out of Calpol of course you are going to go out and get it.
Absolutely!
And… I don’t suppose that Cummings driving round the countryside during the previous lockdown did much to make people inclined to comply with the letter of the law! I should imagine that sensible people and those that know they could be high risk will be, well sensible about it and those that aren’t, won’t!
And it’s got worse…
Support bubble, unless it’s changed
Hi @cat
I think you have your answer, but I reviewed this same information for our own travels. There is no MINIMUM required stay for quarantine, just to exit quarantine you need to stay / wait for the 14 days. If you go home / back to another country before the 14 days are up then no issue for UK Border control.
However, be cautious leaving your designated “quarantine “ address as a remote chance UK Border force checks up on you & your out partying / shopping/ sightseeing then there is a large fine and potential ban from entering UK again.
Happy Travels.
How can the UK ban a UK passport holder from entering the UK without disenfranchising them (withdrawing their citizenship)?
Ha ha @graham sorry to confuse in my effort to keep the length of the message shorter. Clearly I should have bracketed the fact (if your not a British Citizen) about possible refusal of entry.
It’s an extremely slim chance anyways.
I went to UK on 1st August - Bordeaux to Gatwick (came back on 10th so all before latest restrictions) and the contact trace form (online entry of data on a .gov webpage accessed via a QR code using your own smartphone) was requested prior to passport control. The jobsworth in charge had no sympathy for those who had no smartphone or a flat battery. Paper completion was not accepted or available and very few travellers knew of the requirement to complete online before entry. Without the reference provided on completion of the form, passport control was inaccessible. There were several without smartphone access who had to rely on strangers to provide it, including one partially sighted woman who could not see the text on a smartphone and had to provide her personal (security relevant) details to a stranger for completion on the stranger’s phone. It was a shambles.
I went back in late July on Eurostar and everything was clearly laid out beforehand. No problem with paper versions although I had mine on my phone but then the whole experience was more Waitrose than Lidl when compared to Easy jet and the devil spawn who operate security at Gatwick and Stanstead.
I calculated that it cost me almost exactly the same as driving to Bordeaux, parking and then getting on the Gatwick express and was totally painless.
Got on the train in Dax at 8.45am and walked through parents front door in Surbiton at 5.45 pm, having read, worked or slept for almost the entire journey.
I am never, ever, ever traveling budget airline again!